IT Insights Blog — Education

First there was Amazon. Now everyone is doing it. Amazon Echo, the home assistant "smart speaker" that offers you a voice-activated connection to the web, as well as to various internet-enabled devices in your home, lit a tiny consumer fire at the end of 2014 as a special offering to Amazon Prime members. (The cheery program that responds to Echo commands is named Alexa.) Then the gizmo caught on, fueled by a general release in 2015, and Amazon's first-ever Super Bowl ad (featuring Alec Baldwin) in 2016.

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to visit with a teenager named Paul. Paul just finished his junior year and has landed a summer job with a local tire repair shop. As a reader, he is familiar with many of western civilization’s great books, and would be considered well-read even for one twice his age. His communication skills are top-notch, and he has a GPA well above his peers. He also possesses another valuable non-teenager like trait — he knows how to save money.

It’s that time of year when millions of college graduates raise their diplomas high, throw their caps in the air, and sally forth to make their marks in the world — or so commencement speakers have told them they will do. If they are like I was, lo those many years ago — and most probably are — then their first thought about those newly completed four, five, or even six years of college is, “Wow! That went quick.” Their second thought, for those without a trust fund, is, “I gotta find a job!”

As stated in Newton’s third law of motion, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This means that in every interaction between two objects, the size of the force acting on one object equals the size of the force acting on the second object.

A resource is defined as a stock or supply of assets (money, materials, staff, etc.) that can be drawn upon by a person or organization in order to function effectively. If you are wanting to land a job in a specific career, then you need to be able to function effectively. Do you know all of the resources that are available to you?